The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-09
'uENLIas, W. VA. NOVEMBER D. 1887,
Law or DSIhuiits. ~

Gao Of tho prominent men Of Chicago
who elgaed the petition for c'omency in
bshalf Of tho Anarchist murao,err, being
told Of thu finding OF the bomba In LinRg's
cell, fald ho kopsd iswpu rot true. lit
weru true It wuuld show that sympa!by
had been waited md that the issue
lqaare]y presented wap, whether the law
or dynamite stall rule. !.
: Tho WIS tho iea,le bsfo,e the discovery
Of tho bonbs IN tho coll. Nothing that
has happened aace the awful butchery at
the Hsyrarket has IN tho slightest
changed tho !s5rc. Bu. 20 able and usual.
ly clesr.sish!e.! newspaper 40 tho Chi.
cage 1ribuas psems to .thiuk tina. tho con.
di.ion Of affairs has been materially
changed by the letter Of Spies, schwab
and Fiolden asking clomency. In their
appeal the condemned men say:
II in the excitement OF p,opugsting our
views 80 wers !cd luto expressions which
caueed woikiDgmsn 10 think that IN ag.
greBs!ye course WA a proper instrument
OF reform ,re regret il. Wedeplore The loss
OF lie OF tho haymaIset 90 well 40 at Nc.
Cornickn, Eaa. st. Louie, and the Chicago
Stock Yaris. 1850 *.
Thia tq1ivocsl ulterance bringu from
the Tribune the follow ing comment:
II these men arc honeeti In this dcclara.
ton, and there sesms to bs no resson 10
doubt 1t, while 1t doe6 not relieve them
from tho charge Of teaching anarchicsl
doctrines und advocating violent rsvolu.
tionary methods up to the time oil their
arrest, ii words neon anything, 1t demon.
at1Rtes that they have come ut laet to q
realizing eense Of the diaaatrous folly oil
their coHrse and that they orc sorry for
ito eril reGulss. It Ia an abandonment OH
their part Of tho Anarchist method OF put.
ting tho doctrines OF Socialism III opera.
tio2-by iorce-snd is by implication, at
least, confession that they can only
hops to accomplish anything by peacsa-
Bile, legal, and constitutional msthots.
Tho least that eau DO said is that they
have been honea., though at lsls day,
in expressing regts! and IN abandoning
the infamous doctrines contained IN tho
Ana,chist platform, aud thGt their new
poait!on ia entitled to that thoughtful con-
Biderat!ou which it will uEquss!icnsbly
receive from the Governor. St,5
Homes. in this declaration!" They
prcuched through the Arbsiier Zeitung and
on the platform the doctrine that murder
was no wrong, indeed tina. it was the only
way 10 bring abou. the revolution which
was to end in the enirsnchiGcmento ilabor.
They did not stop here, but they went on
ins:rlctiny their follower in the making
aud handling Of fynsmite bombs, arming
and drilling The armed groups, and at tho
Last they called tie sHsymsrkot meeting
for tie ayowed purpona Of otr,tiug their
revolution"
Ii they now .egresaud deplors anything
1t Is that they have bsen csrsht rsi-
handed in their work OF wholesale butch
cry end are desitoas OF getting their necks
out Of the hsnsuan's nooas. II they
have been brought at les. to a realizing
acnse OF any.hingis 10 that dynamite is
not superior to tho law, and that courts
and juries will no. look with mora favor
on Ansrchist murJerers than on tho most
ordinary Of murderels.
Thisis not the fiat time in history that
men hsve weakened under shadow eli the
galloTa and wished thenaelvea we'll out
of . bad beg. Tho appeal for clemsncy
is read in baa light il it be taken 10
mean that the murdsrers arc cory for
anybody but themaelvcp, or that while
in prison they have undergone change
Of heart. Murder is enc of the teachings
OF tho Ansrch;sle, and while the men in
Cook county jail live they will be Anarch.
lets.